Deleting old backups from computer and icloud

Is it possible to delete old copies of phone back-ups from icloud? Does I cloud keep multiple back-ups or does it over-write with the most recent one?

Posted on Jan 21, 2020 5:24 PM

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Posted on Jan 21, 2020 5:29 PM

iCloud makes one backup for each uniquely named device using your AppleID. But each uniquely named device is backup always over-writes the last with the most recent. There are no archival backup files in iCloud, just the most recent.


If you had a uniquely named device you no longer have, you can delete those named backup files.

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Jan 21, 2020 5:29 PM in response to travel_on

iCloud makes one backup for each uniquely named device using your AppleID. But each uniquely named device is backup always over-writes the last with the most recent. There are no archival backup files in iCloud, just the most recent.


If you had a uniquely named device you no longer have, you can delete those named backup files.

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